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It's okay to think rapey stuff is bad.

I haven't read this story, and it is ironic that Heinlein's list makes a point about the characters viewpoint not being the author's.

I'm In that same point he also goes on to say that fiction is entertainment. It's also okay to like rapey entertainment I guess is the argument your making. Maybe you'd like the sword of truth books. Or some stephen r donaldson.

Yes, you could play doom on a brain

Google some shit like multiplexing and go down that rabbit hole, it won't disappoint

Brain neurons are slower than silicon, by a lot.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(time)

114.6 ps (pico second, One trillionth of one second): The time for the fastest overclocked processor as of 2014 to execute one machine cycle.

1 ms (millisecond, one thousandth of a second): The time for a neuron in the human brain to fire one impulse and return to rest

That's about 1,000,000,000 or a billion times slower.

If you went the organic angle you'd want some bs about bit width or multiplexing, or how neurons don't get interference or ringing or something.

Edit: or if organic stuff wasn't faster, but you could make it at home without a die machine, you just mask some nutrients onto a petri dish, and it grows, so everyone has their own custom little brains that tell them the time, some real horror shit.

cum

Now I need to see vid_899880425_035412_980

Nice

@mods bait

This is how dnd takes over the mini market from Warhammer

We can't talk about piracy anymore, but that's what I meant

The link

We need a hero, to link this OF

Agreed.

Funny that I think you tapped into another politicized proxy argument here. People want their kids to get a good education, but they didn't want it to be woke.

Things were better when it was puritanical teaching and sex -- and anything about sex -- was bad and parents didn't have to think about their little horny teenagers touching each other. Gross, right?

Hence, book bans instead of education funding.

I had an interaction a few weeks ago where I made the same obvious statement -- that everything is political, like the price of milk is political -- and the someone said I was making it political, like gun rights.

That conversation stopped there unfortunately, but it made me realize something.

Politicized is different from political for a lot of people.

Maybe most people realize the price of gas is political, but they don't think that their internet bill, or whatever, is political. It's just market forces to them, or whatever they assume about capitalism being good.

Ultimately, I think my point is that when people say things like foss shouldn't be political, I think they're saying they agree, but they would lose their in-group status be agreeing with something "woke" like ethics in software. So they have to make a proxy argument about what is and isn't political.

Yeah, that graph is sus af

“My kids, who are 10, 12 and 14, you could tell them, ‘You know what, when you retire you’re gonna get money at 70, not 65.’” he said. “Do you think they’re gonna care?”

Wow that was a good read

Edit: the archive bike article, not the bezos one

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Yes, this. See the rothfuss misty mnts link I posted. Soulful shit.

They changed their business model. That’s not politics.

That's literally politics.

Reddit was able to change their API and essentially do whatever they wanted because they operate under a political system that gives power to corporations over individuals.

It doesn't have to be this way. At&t used to be able to require you to use their proprietary phone. That's not much different from Reddit requiring you to use their app.

We could have a different system. A system that gives data rights to individuals. A system that would require an API that allows 3rd parties -- and therefore more competition and innovation -- to exist.